September 28, 1845On this day, 181 years ago, Ezra Keller was preparing his notes for his first meeting with the Board of Directors of Wittenberg College. He recorded his progress from the prior year. During the year I traveled three thousand two hundred miles, not including short distances: I preached […]
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The following is an essay I wrote for our Wittenberg University community. These are compiled on Wittenberg’s site and will be periodically shared here as well: “Presidential Communications” Wittenberg Community, I remember our nation’s Bicentennial. We lived in a new, planned community full of young families, where the centerpiece of […]
The following is an essay I wrote for our Wittenberg University community. These are compiled on Wittenberg’s site and will be periodically shared here as well: “Presidential Communications” Wittenberg Community, June 19, 1865, twenty years after Wittenberg College was founded, news of the Emancipation Proclamation finally reached all the states […]
Below is my inauguration address. All of these speeches and things are being archived at the President’s website, but I thought there are likely some of my friends who only see Targuman.org. I am deeply grateful that my friend and colleague the Rev. Canon Dr. Hugh Page provided the Keynote […]
August 27, 2025 was my first Convocation as President of Wittenberg University. The tradition is for the new President to give the address and I was happy and honored to do so. Below is the text and you can view the video at YouTube. בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת […]